The Guild Master of Demon Hunters that the Empire is Obsessed With

15 – Picking up an abandoned healer (9)

Hungry lunch break.

Leanna grumbled as she set the table on the counseling room table.

“Sir, let’s buy a round table for the living room on the first floor. The smell of food in the counseling room is bad.”

“I was going to buy some furniture with the money I received for this request.”

“Okay. Let’s eat and go out. Excited.”

“I’ll wake up the saintess and come.”

I went up to this floor and stood in front of the saintess’ door.

“Saintess! Eat!”

I knocked on the door, but I didn’t hear anything, so it looks like I haven’t woken up yet.

When I went inside, as expected, the saintess was lying on her side, hugging her pillow and sleeping soundly.

The saintess outfit that became a pair of rags is hanging on her chair, and now she is wearing Leana’s casual clothes.

Looking at it like this, she doesn’t look like a saint.

Mysteriously, Halo was floating above the bed even though he was lying down.

How can I make it invisible?

She was about to shake her shoulder when suddenly the saintess whispered with her eyes closed.

“Don’t worry…”

“What?”

“Don’t worry, kids… I’ll protect you…”

Speaking nonsense is like talking in your sleep.

Are you dreaming of dead priests?

“Lady, wake up. Let’s eat.”

I woke her saintess by gently shaking her shoulders.

I opened my eyes slowly, and when my eyes met hers, the saintess jumped up in surprise and looked around her.

“Where are you?”

“My guild room on the second floor. You said you’d wake me up at lunchtime.”

“Ah… I see…”

Saint Celestine shook her head weakly, and her coveted purple hair waved.

“I was suddenly relieved, so I fell asleep without knowing the world.”

“Come down. Let’s eat.”

After I left her room, Saint Celestine followed me down the stairs.

“Welcome everyone!”

Cried Leana cheerfully, donning her apron and carrying her tongs and ladle.

As the saintess sat down, Leana took her ladle and scooped the piping hot tomato stew into her personal bowl.

“You don’t have anything prepared, but eat a lot, saintess.”

“Thank you…”

The saintess just nibbled at her spoon as if she had no appetite.

“The priests decided that Ms. Carla would cremate her.”

As she ate, she told Celestine what she had done this morning.

“And I was also promised that I would never say anything about yesterday.”

“Thank you…”

“What should I do after putting on makeup, saintess?”

“Is there a river nearby?”

Leah looked back at me and she answered right away.

“The Lumiere River is not far away. That would be nice.”

“Okay. Let’s go over there and sprinkle it.”

The saintess shook her head.

“Now, let’s sort out the dead priests at that level, and move on to the saintess’ problem.”

The spoon of the saintess who was digging through the poor stew stopped.

“What are you going to do next? We already talked about it at dawn.”

“Well… Honestly, I’m not sure yet…”

Saint Celestine put her spoon down and shook her head.

“I can’t go back to the sect… I can’t not go back… I didn’t learn a single skill from manifesting divine power at such a young age…”

“That’s right. In the end, the saintess has to use her divine power to live as a human being.”

“Yes…But I don’t know where or how to do it…”

“I guess so.”

Turning to Leah, who was sitting next to her, asked with her eyes, and Leah nodded slightly.

I had already told Leana all of my plans.

“Saint, I will make a suggestion.”

I also put down my spoon and asked seriously.

“For now, the saintess won’t return to her sect, will you?”

“Anyway… I don’t think I can go back…”

“Yes. If you go, the saintess will die. So don’t come back. And externally, the saintess is the same as she died during the demon hunt yesterday.”

“Yes…”

The saintess slowly nodded her head.

“Then, the saintess is no longer a saintess. She just becomes an ordinary woman who knows how to use divine power.”

“That’s right…”

Celestine’s face darkened rapidly.

“But like I said, it’s difficult to have a job that uses divine power. If you become a healer, you either join a guild or set up a clinic, but those things are officially registered, so the church will not expose you. But you can’t work as a healer without registering. It’s the bottom line to create people who don’t have them and register them as guild members to receive subsidies and benefits.”

“Yes…”

“So you’re moving illegally? If I’m right about you, it’s probably as dangerous as returning to the sect.”

“That’s right…”

“So please join our guild.”

“Yes… I see… Yes?!”

Celestine jerked her head in surprise.

“What did you say?!”

“I told you to join our guild.”

“Why?!”

“It’s good to have at least one healer in the guild. I do many other things.”

Leana, the guild leader, who has to do all the administrative work with me, the office manager who actually runs the request.

You can never lead a guild with just the two of you.

Even if Celestine can’t make a single request right now, she will be of great help if she at least does chores inside the guild and does this or that.

And Celestine is a Halo saint.

Although she doesn’t seem to be very smart, her divine power is definitely guaranteed.

A healer with a Halo is not something you can get with money.

It doesn’t matter if Celestine’s statement this morning is false.

Considering that I am holding the sword hilt and inviting the Halo saintess into my guild, there is no harm in being tricked.

“What do you think?”

“I never really thought about that…”

Celestine stuttered and averted her gaze.

“I cheated on you…And most of all, I didn’t have a good personality…And I wasn’t very sociable and I had a bad head…”

“There’s nothing wrong with cheating on me. And it’s just a matter of adjusting the personality and things like that one by one.”

Celestine seemed to keep her mouth shut and think quietly.

Waiting for an answer, she took another spoonful of stew.

Hmm, to be honest, Leana’s cooking skills are… Not good.

It’s not because I only ate things covered with seasonings in my present life.

I went around a lot of restaurants while rolling around saying that I was raiding the Great Devil, and the delicious ones were delicious.

Well, I can’t help it. Leanna isn’t even a cook.

If there are more guild members later, then I’ll have to find a cook as well.

Because I don’t want to run the guild in a way where the manager prepares lunch like a bullsh*t.

“If…”

After being silent for a long time, Celestine opened her mouth.

“If you don’t mind, brother and sister… I’ll take care of you for the time being… I’ll do that…”

“I like it. It was quiet because I was going to be alone on this floor.”

Leanna smiled benevolently.

She said to Celestine, who smiled awkwardly there.

“But there are a few conditions.”

“What is it?”

“First of all, I won’t post it as a full-time guild member. It’s just that the church might find out about it. Of course, the possibility of that is slim, but there’s one thing.”

“Okay.”

“And there is no salary for the time being. Until the guild grows. Right now, the guild leader and I are also unpaid.”

“It’s okay. Just eating and sleeping.”

“Lastly, we have to do the guild’s chores together. Things like cleaning and groceries.”

When they got there, Celestine shut her mouth.

Celestine’s official rank listed on the sect’s orders is a priestess in charge.

According to the game setting book, she is a fairly high rank who can take on a small town-level area.

She even had a halo on her head, so you can guess how well she was treated within the sect before her whistleblowing.

But now she has run away from the sect and lives like a dead person and has to do odd jobs without a salary.

It won’t be easy to accept.

“I can do it. Just ask me to do anything.”

However, Celestine answered with a determined attitude that she had made a big decision.

“Okay. Then, it’s a matter of naming.”

“Call me Celestine. And she… Hasn’t even been promoted to an official guild member, so you can just drop her off.”

Unexpectedly, Celestine humbled herself first and clearly organized their relationship.

“Then Celestine. Let’s get along.”

“Thank you for taking me in, guild leader.”

“Ah, I’m the manager and this is the guild leader.”

Leanna smiled and raised her hand.

Celestine, who blinked her eyes slightly bewildered, not knowing what the reason was, bowed her head to Leahna.

“Thank you, guild leader.”

“Me too, Celestine.”

In this way, Celestine, the excommunicated saint of the celibate sect, became our guild’s unofficial healer.

I have to teach and nurture them well in the future.

“But you have that Halo.”

She asked Celestine, pointing to the halo floating above her head.

“It draws too much attention. Can’t we get rid of it?”

“This?”

As soon as he finished speaking, the halo slowly began to fade.

However, it didn’t completely disappear, and if you look closely, you can see the shape very faintly.

“If you go out to a bright place, you probably can’t see it. But at night, no matter how much you turn down the light, you can’t help it.”

“Yeah. That’s enough. Go to town only during the day.”

“Yes, I understand.”

“But can you catch it? No, that’s fine. You don’t have to answer.”

As I shook her hand, Celestine spoke another word of her own.

“By the way, I also have a request to the secretary and guild leader.”

“What is it?”

“I don’t have a very good personality and I’m not very smart. But please understand me with a broad mind.”

“Yes. Well, that’s… possible.”

I’ve never seen a real stupid person who says he’s stupid.

So far it’s clear that Celestine is a stupid woman with her emotions ahead of her, but she should still have a glimmer of hope.

After all the agreement was reached, Celestine began to eat the tomato stew.

But after taking a few spoonfuls to see if it tasted bad, he said he was full, so Leana was very sad.

* * * * *

Late afternoon that day.

It is the time when the sun slowly sets and sprinkles the red sunset.

At the tributary of the Lumiere River, which was reached after a 30-minute walk, Celestine sprinkled the bones of cremated priests.

Submerged waist-deep in water, Celestine sobbed repeatedly as she sprinkled bone meal.

Leana’s eyes moistened as she watched how sad she looked.

“She’s a decent woman. If she was honestly a saint who floated in a halo, everyone would support her just by breathing.

“Yes.”

We stood by the river and watched Celestine for a long time as she sprinkled bone meal in the setting sun.

We also unofficially brought in a healer, and now it’s a real start.

Let’s grow the size of the guild properly and make it bigger until the Great Devil is revived again.